Create Alias on Desktop for User Folder

This is my first Mac and I know it's probably easy to do, but how do I create a Alias on my desktop to my User directory? When ever I try to drag or Control Drag "Mike" from my finder window to my desktop, it just removes it from the finder.
Thanks!

Hi Mike, I suspect you are having some confusion with several different things about the Finder. When you open a Finder window it generally has three parts: a Sidebar along the left side, a toolbar across the top, and its contents in the main section. The Sidebar is actually collection of aliases, and you can change things that appear in it. To remove something, simply click, hold and drag out of the Sidebar, the item disappears with a poof. I would guess that is what you are doing. You can add folders (and files) to the Sidebar by dragging from the main body of the window into into the Places section of the Sidebar. Apple loves the Sidebar--but its nature confuses many (maybe even most) new users, and quite a few older ones as well.
Also, to create an alias to something by drag 'n drop, you must hold down BOTH the Option and Command keys and then drag it where you want it. You can tell you are creating an alias because the cursor changes to a little curvy arrow.
But the easiest way to quickly open you home folder is the one mentioned above: just click the Finder icon in the Dock. If for some reason that default behavior has changed, go to Finder, open Preferences, click General, and reselect it from the drop down menu.
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